Addressees
"A Common Word between Us and You" is addressed to Pope Benedict XVI, the Patriarchs of the Orthodox Churches, the leaders of the larger Christian denominations, and to leaders of Christians everywhere. A list is as follows:
- Bartholomew, Patriarch of Constantinople
- Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa
- Ignatius IV, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East
- Theophilos III, Patriarch of the holy City of Jerusalem
- Alexy II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
- Pavle, Patriarch of Belgrade and Serbia
- Daniel, Patriarch of Romania,
- Maxim, Patriarch of Bulgaria,
- Ilia II, Archbishop of Mtskheta – Tbilisi, Catholico-Patriarch of All Georgia
- Chrisostomos, Archbishop of Cyprus
- Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece
- Sawa, Metropolitan of Warsaw and All Poland
- Anastasios, Archbishop of Tirana, Duerres and All Albania
- Christoforos, Metropolitan of the Czech and Slovak Republics
- Pope Shenouda III, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa on the Apostolic Throne of St Mark
- Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians
- Ignatius Zakka I, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, Supreme Head of the Universal Syrian Orthodox Church
- Mar Thoma Didymos I, Catholicos of the East on the Apostolic Throne of St Thomas and the Malankara Metropolitan
- Abune Paulos, Fifth Patriarch and Catholicos of Ethiopia, Tekle Haymanot, Arcbishop of Axum
- Mar Dinkha IV, Patriarch of the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East
- The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams
- Mark S Hanson, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and President of the Lutheran World Federation
- George H Freeman, General Secretary, World Methodist Council
- David Coffey, President of the Baptist World Alliance
- Setri Nyomi, General Secretary of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches
- Samuel Kobia, General Secretary, World Council of Churches
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